Andrew, from 123systems, is back with some new special offers for LowEndBox readers to celebrate their expansion to Los Angeles, California! Contrary to last time, it’s only OpenVZ offers this time but it includes some very cheap annual deals! 123sytems have been in business for over four years now, according to their domain registration date, and are certainly not new to the LowEndBox community. Their very first apperance on LowEndBox was in April 2010 and they have been featured plenty of times since. These offers are hosted on modern hardware with “brand new Intel E3 haswell processors” and all of them come with SSD caching. All offers except one (the 128MB deal) are available in four locations. Feel free to share your experiences with us in the comments!

Payment methods accepted PayPal or credit cards through PayPal. 123systems does not give any refunds. Additional IPv4 addresses are available at $3/month/IPv4. IPv6 is not yet available. Please read their Terms of Service before you order!

It’s something I’ve thought about off and on but not something I have seriously considered doing. A ways back we did offer some other options such as Payza & Moneybookers; Payza unfortunately just can’t seem to get their act together and we eventually tossed them out the window after losing (yet again) the ability to withdraw our funds.

I nuked Moneybookers after seeing multiple providers getting their accounts slapped closed for being in the hosting industry, so this was more a preemptive strike.

Not saying Bitcoin isn’t an option in the future, but for now I’d rather see where that market is going before I decide to take it seriously.

To clarify: you can accept Bitcoins using ie. Bitpay.com gateway. They will deliver WHCMS gateway and, what’s important, for seller – you will get the USD if you’d like. I mean the buyer pays BTC via Bitpay and Bitpay sends USD to you and all sides are happy.

Does everyone who ordered have access to the VPS automatically? I received the activation email but the VPS is not responding to ping (although I can perform all kind of operations via SolusVM) which I found a bit weird.

Few months ago I tried one of their vps. I would say that their downtime is more than uptime. Almost everyday there were down. This is the worst hosting account that I ever had in my 10 years hosting business.

A VPS is a server. Lots of people use a VPS to host websites, but you need to be able to install and configure the server software yourself.

If you don’t have that kind of knowledge then I suggest just looking for a cheap “shared” hosting offer instead. Shared hosting basically means someone else runs the server and you get a “slot” on there server to host your website(s).

“All torrents, including legal torrents are prohibited on our service. Torrents are used to distribute often illegal content. This includes torrent trackers. Any site hosting torrents, or torrent trackers will be suspended upon discovery. URL downloader(s), website/file copying utilities are also prohibited. 123Systems will issue a $50.00-$250.00 research/clean up fee for any client that is found hosting torrents.”

The Website Ahead Contains Malware!
Google Chrome has blocked access to 123systems.net for now.
Even if you have visited this website safely in the past, visiting it now is very likely to infect your Mac with malware.
Malware is malicious software that causes things like identity theft, financial loss, and permanent file deletion.

(i) A simple apt-get update takes about 6 minutes to do. Thats 240 seconds for a 10 second job at most.
(ii) Installing a simple apt-get job takes about 5-15 minutes, depending on the size of the download, which mind you is _typically_ no faster than 125kb/s
(iii) I opened a ticket to get moved to another node, they reinstalled the OS on the same node, same IP, and said done. It was Andrew by the way.

It’s been 8 days since I requested a refund, 2 follow-ups, no response.

i am on the same boat. i got OpenVZ 2G from them. my vps have huge lag spike. loading a static html take 20 seconds. load avg > 3. sometimes even > 10. i have request for a refund too. it has been few days and no response. They just set my ticket to refund status.

They have very good price. If you have non time-sensitivity job, it may worth to use them.

I ordered a VM with 1GB RAM a few months ago. Yes it was cheap and yes I expected that it would probably suck, and yes it does suck. Here’s why:

– The VM has been rebooted several times without warning.
– About 50% of the time I try to use it the VM is so slow that it takes minutes to run scripts/programs that normally run in a matter of seconds.
– I’ve not used a fraction of the RAM that I supposedly have, but I’ve found that my system is swapping heavily. Might as well have ordered 128MB.
– I’ve filed numerous tickets about these issues including benchmarks and evidence I could gather. Andrew always says he’s “looking into it”, then the ticket gets closed and nothing changes.
– I asked to be moved to different node since they couldn’t resolve the huge performance problems. Not sure whether they did or not (ticket was randomly closed again), but I’m still experiencing the same issues either way.

I ordered this VM to use as a crude test environment, but it’s not even useful for that. It’s certainly not useful for anything that desires the remotest amount of reliability and you might have to wait hours for the system to become usable when you do want to use it. This host is, frankly, a scam. For an extra couple $ you should get a real service.

I ordered my server last night that is 14 hours before posting this comment.
It took nearly 3 hours for them to send my server details.
And you know what the amazing thing is? The server is not working ever since.
First they tell me the node is not working and should work in 15 mins.
They have the worst of the services. DO NOT BUY!
Their cheap prices are only to fool, they do not provide any kind of service.

The dog days of summer are officially here and that means it’s time for our first annual summer update. This email is different than the ones you’ve received from us in the past – which were sales-centric, a cheap ploy, we admit. Over the past two months we’ve conducted a review of our internal policies and operational processes and we’re very busy making big changes. Keep reading for our big news and discount opportunities:

1. Vastly improved support. Effective two weeks ago we added three support technicians to our team which now allows us to offer true 24 hour support. No longer will our customers feel like a generic number forced to interact with apparently careless customer service.

2. Accountability. At any time you can request that your support request be escalated and management will quickly intervene. Your business is valued and we will make sure you feel that way.

3. Lower Server Loads. Effective immediately we have begun provisioning nodes without slabbing technology and with 40% fewer customers. We have additional nodes on the way to load shed existing servers and over the next 4 weeks customers will see a dramatic improvement in performance and reliability. These improvements will not cause any interruption to your services and your IPs will not change.

4. Better Uptime. Lower load and the end of slabbing, along with fixing the issues that occurred due to the recent OpenVZ update will all mean a much more reliable customer experience.

5. Pricing. Our same attractive pricing model will stay intact for all current customers. Absolutely no increases will occur for existing clients. There will be a modest upward tweaks on certain packages for new orders and those increases will help cover the costs incurred with our overall improvement efforts. We’re confident that new customers will believe an extra few dollars per year will be worth a better service; and current customers get that improvement free! Just like it should be.

In the past our boring sales emails would include massive discounts to compel customers to signup. Given our mission to improve, and the changes we’ve already made, we’re now proving more reasonable incentives. Signup for any package with coupon “save25” and you’ll save 25% for life.

It’s pretty amazing 123systems that you’re able to take the time to spam new offers on 4 different posts here but you don’t have the time to answer support tickets from the many customers who have complained both on LET and WHT about services being down for days, nodes that don’t work, or and you ripping them off you scammer.

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